Cishan Cultural Site Museum

　　   The Cishan Cultural Site Museum is situated in Cishan Town, southwest of Wu'an City. It has a construction area of 8,000 square meters and exhibits more than 1,100 unearthed cultural relics. The site protection shed spans an area of over 2,800 square meters, recreating the historical scene of the Cishan Culture as it was at the time of initial excavation. The museum building features a combination of ancient and modern architectural styles — the main gate follows traditional Chinese architectural design, while the exhibition halls, protective sheds, and office spaces are built with a hybrid structure of brick, wood, and cement in a classical style. The stele corridor consists of cement imitation-wood corridors topped with double-slope gray-tiled rolled shed roofs. The protective shed structure is made of steel frame mining supports.

　　   The museum consists of a central lobby and two main exhibition halls on either side, enhanced with modern high-tech audio, light, and electrical effects to recreate the living and production scenes of the Cishan ancestors from eight thousand years ago. At both ends of the exhibition halls are landscape displays depicting the fishing, hunting, and gathering activities of the Cishan people. The halls feature wall-to-wall display cabinets that sequentially exhibit stone tools, pottery, bone artifacts, agriculture, Yi culture, and ritual offerings. On the west side of the courtyard, there is a large 55m x 30m exhibition shed, including simulated scenes of house foundations, storage pits, ash pits, and "composite artifacts" remains.

　　   The eastern hall displays bone artifacts, arrowheads, fishhooks, bone needles, bone shovels, seashells, domestic chicken skulls, pig skulls, dog skulls, macaque skulls... agricultural and cultivation or breeding specimens such as millet, Celtis sinensis var. japonica, and hazelnuts. There are also ancestral-shaped vessels, diviner’s grass instruments, and ceremonial jade plates.

　　   The western hall showcases stone tools, pottery, stone grinding plates, stone rollers, stone axes, stone shovels, stone sickles, stone hammers, and stone swords. Pottery items include bird-head-shaped stand pottery basins, pottery jars, pottery pots, pottery bowls, tripod bowls, and more.